I may have new imagery from the Rockies by tomorrow (see lower left, for the Tuesday just passed, versions). We shall see, but here is the latest:
. . .Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.
This flare is classified as an X4.0 flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength.
To see how such space weather may affect Earth, please visit NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center https://spaceweather.gov/, the U.S. government’s official source for space weather forecasts, watches, warnings, and alerts. NASA works as a research arm of the nation’s space weather effort.
NASA observes the Sun and our space environment constantly with a fleet of spacecraft that study everything from the Sun’s activity to the solar atmosphere, and to the particles and magnetic fields in the space surrounding Earth. . . .
Now you know. These wildly gargantuan blasts always capture (and fire!) my imagination: how amazing it is, that we -- tiny, fragile and flawed things some 93 million miles away from them. . . are able to see them as beautiful. . . and not lethal.
We were granted the best of random luck -- of arising on a planet with a thick soft atmosphere, and a relatively robust magnetosphere. In fact, it is largely because of those happy, improbable accidents. . . that we were able to evolve at all -- and arise from the seas many billions of years ago. Wow.
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